释义 |
scungy, a. Chiefly Austral.|ˈskʌndʒɪ| Also scungey. [f. scunge v. + -y1.] Mean, dirty, disreputable. Also Comb.
1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) x. 215 Scungey, dirty, untidy, disreputable. 1969Coast to Coast 1967–8 86 Y' hate me, don'tya? Don'tya? Don'tya, eh? Answer me, y' scungy bitch. Answer me! 1970Telegraph (Brisbane) 10 Mar. 8/5 Nowadays people..talk about ‘that scungy place, Bondi’. It's the truth, but it hurts. 1978Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 May 5/5 Sometimes you see scungy-looking grapes that are worth a lot of money. 1980R. Ansell To fight Wild 56 The dressing on her leg was getting very scungy but I wasn't game to touch it until the bone had had time to begin setting. |